As we approach the magical 850,000th post on this board (and maybe I got it, who knows!) I wondered, what site would have the most hits ever? Any with over a billion hits now, do you think? Anyone know for certain what’s int he top 5? My guess is some government agency, like the post office or Social Security, might be really high.
Google has to be up there.
A billion seems awfuly small…
I’d guess Yahoo or MSN. Alexa Traffic Ratings says that they are the most popular right now, but that doesn’t mean they have the highest ever. They probably do though.
There used to be a site around that tracked this kinda stuff comprehensively, and I thought it was Alexa, but I cannot find it there any more. From memory, Google was #1.
Anyone got a link to a place that does do this properly (ie, not just the last week)?
abby
Alexa is not the be-all and end-all - their rankings are based on more than simple page loads.
My guess is Yahoo, since it, for a long time, was the most frequently visited site on the web.
A billion does seem small. That’s only a thousand million, and I know of some relatively small fish that do 70 million pageviews a month.
Okay, here’s the Alexa Link
http://www.alexa.com/site/ds/top_500
and it seems to have Yahoo as #1 (at least as far as English language sites).
www.websearch.com also has website popularity statistics.
I’ve asked about these 2 sites in other postings and people have said (as they have here) that these are not the most reliable statistics. I would agree because websearch usually ranks my own site around 90,000 and yet alexa ranks it around 180,000. An inaccuracy of a factor of 2 seems a bit much.
Well, use those websites if you wish.
To get real techy about it, I would guess that that Master Domain Name System (DNS) translation table site (now at Internic) would have to be the most visited site. It’s what converts a name like www.google.com into the actual address of that website. And it’s been around since the very beginning of the internet.
Originally, every internet access visited there on every web access, but that was soon changed so that most ISP’s maintain a local copy that they use for DNS lookup. But everyone visits there to download an updated copy of the master table at least once every single day. So it’s probably still very high up in the rankings.
Probably Google, more since it got the Deja News stuff.
Alexa only measures the sites visited by users of Alexa’s “toolbar”.
So that’s a sample only of Windows IE users who don’t mind having spyware on their computer. Not exactly representative.
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*Originally posted by t-bonham@scc.net *
**To get real techy about it, I would guess that that Master Domain Name System (DNS) translation table site (now at Internic) would have to be the most visited site. It’s what converts a name like www.google.com into the actual address of that website. And it’s been around since the very beginning of the internet.
The question was what WEB site has had the most hits. The DNS translation table is not a web site (there’s a lot more to the Internet than the web).
Olympics.com took 11.3 billion hits - just during the 2000 Olympics.